God made us in his image to know him

God made us in his image to know him and in knowing him to experience the fullness of our existence. Mankind was not made to just have a relationship with his environment or with one another but to enjoy God and through that sweet relationship to live the blessed life. Man was never meant to be his own guide but was created to be led by God; we see that in the beginning, God made our first parents rest in green pastures. But how sad the scenery looks today that the vast majority of mankind do not know God in any meaningful or saving way. He came to his own and they did not receive him but crucified him. O, I want to know God like the prophets of old knew him. I want to walk with God like the apostles did. I want his guidance through his word which is made alive in me. I want to know him and the power of his resurrection.

K.Oni

My dream sits in the sky

She is still a tower of remarkable beauty
The only flower for me of which I cannot pluck.
I watch from a distance with neither sorrow nor joy.
I am wounded but not defeated.
The pain lingers not into my day nor disrupts my sleep.
What ought I to feel?
What ought I to be in this dying world
That breathes in decay yet decorates its body
Unto vanity and decorum.
My dream sits in the sky
But I cannot fly to reach her
Yet she will not come to me
And if there was a ladder
She would not descend
But go ever higher as I draw nearer
To her unfathomable beauty,
She would sit with the stars
And were I to reach the stars
She would sit at the end of the universe
And await my death!

K.Oni

Miscellanies 127: Keep on reading

I am in the habit of reading again or listening to books and how sweet it is to my soul. My head is full of thoughts and ideas and writing comes so easily. It is true that one ought to keep on reading if one wants to be a writer, or if one wants to constantly be full of ideas that it is wise to read. My head is ever engaged and I am becoming all the wiser for it. O to continue and to never cease. To keep on this difficult mountain for after a while I take a pause and see the wonderful scenery about me and I marvel that poor I have come so far.

K.Oni

Miscellanies 126: I will not lose the sunshine in my soul

I will not lose the sunshine in my soul and that sunshine which is only dimmed by sin, but Christ has paid it all. Yet I will not live in a way that I sin so that grace may abound. I will leave my sins because grace does abound and has been given kindly to me in the greatest of sacrifice.

K.Oni

Her beauty shines

Her beauty shines,
A monolith among the rest.
I wish to forgo
But when holiness fills my soul,
I am drawn to her,
The forbidden pasture
That becomes my temptation.
I still sigh
But only when sight brings her face near
That beauty which I dismissed
That if I linger a little long
I see her manifold perfections with ease.
A golden glow, forever a wonder to my soul
Protesting in silence and perhaps in denial!

K.Oni

I did a meditation on you

I did a meditation on you
I couldn't help how I felt. 
You never moved on 
Because you never noticed me.
But I do not fear all I have been through.
Let it all fall down
I will not run
But will pick up the pieces
That you left behind. 

K.Oni

Whatever is my weakest thing

Whatever is my weakest thing, that makes me look down,
Let me not be ashamed of it
But embrace it and seek ways to improve
If improvement is what is needed,
Like snoring in my sleep
or being the slowest runner,
These things at times can't be helped
and although it makes me weak
Let me not hide my face
But walk in the light of day.
And if it is sin, like lust and greed
Then let me confess and move on
And forsake it, and even if I fail daily
Let me, even more, forsake it
And give glory to the living God.

K.Oni